Reality - Living an Illusion? (Part 2)

In the strictest interpretation of word meaning,consciousness and is carried out by natural
we hallucinate reality, in that we create it throughemanations of that consciousness, invisible
a miraculous cooperation between inner and outersubjective particles gathering, swarming, collecting
consciousness, between the inner ego and theand attracting other such emanations until the
exterior ego utilizing a process whereby Nothinginner vibrational patterns reach a critical level of
becomes Something. The something thatintensity, igniting inner processes that literally jump
becomes real is a psychic creation that does notthe barrier between a subjective inner state
exist to anyone else that would not have the(thought) into objective physical matter.
exact same sensory organs that we do.These first particles are, of course, pure energy
In other words, intelligent beings from anotherchanging form to manifest itself into the smallest
planet approaching our small world in a spaceimaginable particles, much smaller even than
vehicle would most likely perceive nothing exceptelectrons, mesons, quarks, etc. This was indeed
perhaps the light of the presence of self awarethe triumphant psychological breakthrough that
consciousness. If our planet was perceivable toallowed our universe to emerge from its inner
them, it might be able to land, to them our planetsubjective bed, creating time and space in its
could seem desolate and uninhabited or it mightwake.
fly completely through our world unknowingly. TheThe process is in a way magical, but if "All That
only beings that could perceive our reality, as inIs" had not devised this incomprehensible process
the famous flying saucers are other civilizationsto create Everything from Nothing, there would
that are on the same parallel plane as ourselves,still be nothing but an eternal subjective dream
meaning coming from planets that we can actuallystate of drowsiness and no physical universe
see or perceive with instruments. Remember, it iswould have ever emerged from it's deep eternal
only our senses that make our planet, and ourpsychological state. In a strange way, the
civilizations with their pasts, presents and futuresuniverse has always existed, always wanted to
valid.be, before it knew its first atom, cell or molecule.
These kinds of world to world excursions areThis intense desire to be is still prevalent today in
fraught with difficulty and could only be achievedall consciousness. In greater terms, the universe
by identities far more evolved that we are at thishad no beginning; it did have an emergence from
time. The technology involved in such space travelits timeless subjective dream into the realm of
will not exist in any practical way for us foractuality.
centuries, but it will come eventually. Space travelThe real difficulty here is that we try to discuss
for us now is simply too slow and too far to go.subjects like these using words which are only
A hallucination is something that does not existsymbols of something else. The words are NOT
outside of the mind; it is a creation of the mind ofthe reality. We use words as best we can to
an object or event. We have all agreed inqualify and quantify and categorize objective
advance to play the same game and the gamethings, but the true bed of Prime Reality out of
has consequences and meaning. In that respect, itwhich all physical phenomena rises is not physical
has value and it is real. When we peer throughat all. The reality comes first and the symbols or
our most advanced telescopes, we perceive onlywords follow. So when there is no physically
what falls within our sensual abilities. The universeperceivable reality to label with words or symbols,
if filled with other phenomenon that we can notwe find ourselves woefully lacking for adequate
perceive, both physical and non-physical.words to explain some of the very things we
What we perceive, what seems real to us is onlyneed to know to enhance our lives.
what we can extract by using our senses fromSo where does this leave us?
available fields of energy driven into objectiveHere is one truth. When you begin to understand
patterns and forms. Our physical brain thenthe connection with your thoughts and what you
interprets what we perceive, that which fallsexperience, you will begin to also feel the power
within our belief structures and organizes it intoof knowing that no matter what you have
recognizable objects and events. You could saycreated in the past, you are not at the mercy of
that we encounter only what is meaningful to usa chance life in a chance world in a meaningless
and discard about 99% of everything else thatuniverse. You are the center of the universe
actually exists.from your perspective and from that lofty
The universe could be described as the ultimateviewpoint; you can indeed create a better life.
psychological event, and in that respect,So the answer is that we truly do hallucinate
everything emerges from psychological fact andreality, creating an illusion that becomes physical
what emerges is real so it can not be an illusion,structure. Physical, three dimensional objects and
and it is not a hallucination because it does have aevents are wonderful liars, overlaying inner
physical counterpart and it does exist outside ofpatterns projected from the mind into the
the mind. Which brings us to the question, if itexterior world of fact. In other terms, while we
exists, is it real?are in a physical body living in a physical world that
Look at it this way, in a very true sense we areexists in a physical universe, we have to play by
all in an immaculate trance, pre-programming ourthe rules of the game. Again we are limited by
consciousness to perceive things a certain way,the meaning of words in trying to explain inner
precisely tuning our perceptions before birth, tospiritual concepts that are truly out of this world.
interpret what results from our beliefs andThe illusion of solidity cannot be pierced except
thoughts into what is real to us. But here is thewhen consciousness is stilled in the sleep state, in
really cool thing, thoughts and beliefs are just asdreams, in states of reverie or occasionally in rare
real as the Sphinx or the Empire State Building.cases of spontaneous illumination.
What we are really talking about here is theThere is NO rock bed reality anywhere in any
transformation of a pure psychological event intoworld or any universe and there is not one scintilla
different kinds of physically materializedof solid, hard stuff out there anywhere in space,
constructions that we call three dimensionalbut if it seems real and solid and we can sit on it,
physical objects or events.that's all that counts. There is no contradiction. It's
This building of objective reality from subjectiveall good!
thought is a natural process of self aware